Re: Threading of messages

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Albrecht:

On 03/05/2017 01:56:59 PM Sun, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> Am 04.03.17 14:44 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > > However, when my reply arrived, it was moved to a "balsa" folder per a filter, but stayed at the bottom until 
> > > I manually re-threaded, when it moved into the correct place within the thread.  Not sure if that particular issue was 
> > > something you addressed yet or not.
> >
> > I use Balsa filters to move incoming messages, and so far they get threaded correctly. Do you use procmail 
> > filters?
>
> Just a short update of my observations:
>
> I use a mixture of MBox and Maildir mailboxes.  Messages are filtered using procmail (including a slow spamc 
> pipe), and Balsa's built-in filters.
>
> When I downloaded the messages of the last ~2 days, this discussion was /partly/ sorted into the thread, but 
> some messages were just appended to the list.  Clicking on the date column twice fixed threading.  This 
> mailbox is a MBox, with simple threading.

That seems like a really good clue to what's going on! The sort-and-thread must be getting triggered before 
the mail-check thread has finished delivering messages, and not rescheduled when it has finished. More 
later...

Peter